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I'm having trouble direct linking to an offer in Facebook. When I go into the ads page and select clicks to website and drop in my affiliate link, the URL is always rejected as a destination that cannot be promoted.
Any solutions for this? It's widespread, I have not been able to link multiple offers from multiple networks.
Are you checking the offers on MyWOT to see if they're red or orange there? If so, FB will probably just refuse them outright.
I have not, just added the chrome extension, that may be the problem.
Thanks!
Just went through the same thing. You want to to purchase a second domain and meta refresh/redirect that to your tracking URL.
When starting out in IM, repeat this mantra:
Never direct link to an affiliate link on Facebook. Never direct link to an affiliate link on Facebook. Never direct link to an affiliate link on Facebook.
The affiliate URLs will more often than not be blacklisted and will often bounce FB reviewers to NOT the offer you are promoting.
Then, always check the offer URL on MyWoT and know FB's advertising guidelines.
Lastly, put tracking between your FB ad and the offer and use this to control the click flow. Example:
During ad approval: FB Advert > Tracking URL > Offer page
After ad approval: FB Advert > Tracking URL > Affiliate URL > Offer page
Depending on the tracking system you should also have rules in place that only send e.g. US clicks to the affiliate URL.
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hi,i not too understand the below ,pls guide
During ad approval: FB Advert > Tracking URL > Offer page
After ad approval: FB Advert > Tracking URL > Affiliate URL > Offer page
meta refresh/redirect that to your tracking URL
@charlis12my - What Zeno's suggesting there is the following:
When you're waiting for your ad to be approved, set the offer URL (in your tracker) to be the URL of the offer directly, with no affiliate network link in between. So, if you were promoting Star Wars: The Old Republic, you'd link straight to http://www.swtor.com/ , for example.
Once the ad's approved, switch the URL out in your tracking system for the URL your affiliate network has given you. That way you'll actually get paid for the leads you send!
What Stackcash is saying is that rfcapital could try buying a second domain, then redirecting traffic from that domain to his main domain (which Facebook is currently rejecting).
Hope that helps!
@caurmen , thanks . One more question for the fb ads , I only able to select ads type "click to website " right ? Can I select website conversion ?
You can, but it won't change anything unless you are bidding oCPM and even then the differences are indeterminate. Changing to website conversion still means you pay for clicks all the same.
@zeno what is cpm and ocpm any different ?
CPM = you bid a certain $ for impressions. Just like how in CPC you bid a certain $ for clicks. oCPM = you set $ goals for different actions and FB changes the CPM bid automatically.
@zeno thanks much
i try to change the url after fb ads aproval but i got this message when i try to pload changes , message as follow ,pls helpp
Failed to update advert "xxxx.com - Website Clicks - Advert": For adverts pointing to an offsite location with a non-zero bid on actions, you must specify the conversion spec.
Are you using the power editor? You seem to be bidding oCPM but you haven't told Facebook what 'actions' it should optimise for. Go to optimisation & pricing > oCPM > default bids and click use default conversion specs. If using the new objective based ads do the same but just click default bids. Lastly, are you using an ad type that supports oCPM? Sometimes when you switch ad types it stays on oCPM even though it's not available for the new ad type.
@zeno i try now
Literally joined this afternoon and am trying to read everything I can, but I feel I may have also fallen prey to some beginner errors!
Ive tried to run a PPC fb campaign after listening to Glen Allsop podcast using the information he found here with you guys.
I currently have a FB add linking directly to an affiliate link (Their landing page was much better than I could achieve, and I wanted to get the ball rolling and see what I could find). I figured even if I lose some cash, at least im gaining some wisdom 
Checking the adds im running, I currently have a CTR of 0.563% and I have gone as niche as I could find. This is linking directly to the page and has only seen a very small amount of hits (Due to the niche selection im guessing) but no conversions as yet.
Is this possibly because I have yet to see a sale, or is there sales happening which I dont see, due to facebook somehow stopping this?
Like I say, im incredibly new to this so thank you for your patience and any advice-im still learning the acronyms!
Dan
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